Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables, Volum 6

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Wells and Lilly, 1828

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Western Finns
422
BaschkirsMechtscheriaikes
428
Manners and CustomsMordvines
434
TownsPermians and Siriaines
440
Soil and ProductionsHorses and OxenShrubs
446
Samoyedes their NameTribes of the Samoyedes
451
MetalRivers and Lakes
457
Animals the Rein deerElectricity of the Rein deer
463
DressIndustry
469
Holy PlacesMagic
475
Inclosure of RocksDifferent ClimatesScenery
481
Basins of the LakesHeinola
487
TownsCastle of HysisInhabitants
493
Poetry and MusicHabitationsVapour Baths
500
Different quarters
506
Bremish ExpeditionsScandinavians
512
Crusades on the BalticOrder of Knighthood
513
Livonia
519
BurgessesPeasantry
525
Calendars
531
Chalk banksHills of WaldaiRidge on the northeast
538
HorticultureGardeners of RostowAnimal Kingdom
542
Government of TwerTowns
548
MonasteriesGovernment of WladimirRivers
554
Government of TambofProducePopulationTowns
560
Government of Kursk
566
EUROPE CONTINUED
570
Government of PultavaTownsMonuments
576
AppearanceWomen
582
AmusementsRussian MountainsDomestic Industry
588
Progress of KnowledgeCourt Intrigues
594
European Russia Seventh Section Lithuanian Provinces
599
Russian GovernmentsSamogitiaPhysical Description
603
Lithuanian Language
609
Condition of the PeopleTowns in White RussiaMolda
615
Nucleus of the Russian NationSuccessive Additions
621
Revolutions under his Successors
624
Agriculture Produce c
630
Holy Synod
637
TABLE of the Population of the different Nations in
643
Name Sarmatian Plain
649
WaterMineralsMines of Upper Poland
655
PolesDiseasesSmall Pox
661
Other Towns in MasoviaWaiwodat of Kalisch
667
CommerceUniversityTomb of Queen Venda
673
ProductionsGrainCattle c
679
Manner of LifePolish part of GalliciaTowns
684
PeasantryNobles
690
Discussion on the Sarmatians
696

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Pàgina 541 - of hate Foretel my hopeless doom in some grove nigh ; As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why : Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate, Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
Pàgina 541 - in his beautiful sonnet to the nightingale : Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O if Jove's will Have link'd that amorous pow'r to thy soft lay,
Pàgina 256 - shocks it had sustained; and, in 1453, Mahomet II. entered Constantinople sword in hand, and established himself on the throne of Constantino and Justinian ! But the undisturbed possession of all the countries from Mount Amanus to the Danube, did not satisfy the restless and insatiable ambition of the Turks. Selim, the
Pàgina xx - of man ; but the most valuable natural productions •• have been imported from other quarters of the world. The silkworm was brought from India, fine wool from Mauritania, the peach from Persia, the orange from China, and the potato from America. If we are rich, our wealth has been derived from the produce or spoils of other countries.
Pàgina 256 - and dangerous; which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn." Nor had this mighty power even then
Pàgina 256 - its beginning, its progress, and uninterrupted success, there is nothing in the world more admirable and strange ; if the greatness and lustre thereof, nothing more magnificent and glorious ; if the power and strength thereof, nothing
Pàgina 223 - Next by Scamander's double source they bound, Where two fam'd fountains burst the parted ground, This hot through scorching clefts is seen
Pàgina 154 - of Athens are still distinguished by their light figures, the oval form of the face, the regular contour, the straight line that marks the profile, full black eyes, high forehead, red lips, small hands and feet ; they are equally graceful in the mournful dance of Ariadne and in the rapid mazes of the
Pàgina 151 - sweeter than that of other countries, retains its aromatic fragrance, and, although of a red colour, is perfectly transparent. The same country might rival Spain in the fineness of its wool, the goat thrives on its hills, the uncultivated lands are over-run with thyme, serpillum and marjoram, the Albanian shepherds lead their flocks in summer to these pastures.
Pàgina 391 - hardly felt, the primrose and the crocus appear above the ground in the month of January, and the oak retains its green foliage throughout the year. "No part of Taurida, perhaps of the whole empire, affords the botanist a greater variety of plants, or the husbandman

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